Cross Industry > Enterprise Portal Solutions

Portal Partnerships

As a result of it's partnerships with both BEA and ATG arvato systems has intimate knowledge of both of their portal solutions and the portal market in general. In 2002 arvato systems worked with BEA to develop a concept for an Entertainment specific portal. (See White Paper) As arvato systems has great depth in its J2EE compliant Java development, we can offer both these portals depending on the nature of our clients needs.

The WebLogic Portal application is a J2EE application that runs on the WebLogic Server. Thus, it takes advantage of the performance, scalability and reliability that this server can deliver. The application includes Portal functionality and web-based management. Its Portlet implementation based on JSP technology and it's graphical Web Flow editor, based on XML. provide makes maintenance an much easier task. Its Integration component, Web Services implementation and Unified User Profile further greatly simplifies the integration of disparate data and processes.

ATG's portal, has long been know for its state of the art ATG Commerce solution, providing the most comprehensive online selling solution for building strong relationships with consumers, businesses, and channel partners. It's strong suits are personalization and business process automation, utilizing its Scenario Server. It provides self-service and collaboration tools that help you to increase productivity among employees and partners, and build more productive relationships with customers.

arvato systems, with its strong relationship to these 2 partners, can bring its clients best of breed solutions that most satisfy their needs.

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Low-Cost, Full Featured Portal Application

As a second phase of its E-Business Portal development, arvato systems concentrated on creating an inexpensive alternative to it commercial offerings. Utilizing much of it's development of e-commerce components it developed EBP Portal 1.0. EBP Portal 1.0 is an Open Source J2EE compliant application. It is easily configurable, with an extensive administration panel. It includes content and document management, as well as a highly targeted search engine and categorization tool. It contains security features based on an LDAP installation and can deploy multiple portals within the enterprise all managed from one installation. It is scalable and utilizing advanced caching methods shows excellent performance; all this, with a price tag that ranges from one half to one tenth the cost of ownership and no ongoing software license fees.

It offers:
  • A customizable home page
  • Additional customizable content tabs exposing the information and tools specific to the user group or content area that characterizes the tab, with greater detail and functionality than can be offered on the home page.
  • Easy addition of Portlets. Initial portlets include News, Corporate IM, Chat and Forums, Document and Image Posting as well as the ability integrate external applications and data.
  • A flexible content management tool to create and update content sections on each of these pages, home and content tabs.
  • A document management tool that can store and display relevant documents. These documents can be categorized, and the taxonomy of this categorization can be created and managed with a tool within the administration panel.
  • A search engine that can index all data stored within the Content and Document repository using the open source Java Search application Lucene, and retrieve targeted search result pages utilizing arvato systems unique 3-tier search result implementation.
  • A Portal management tool that enables the configuration of the portal, manages user access and site content.
  • Secure access through names and passwords, with the ability to modify the users view of the site by virtue of their assigned groups and roles.
  • Multi-language display of site text and content.
It is built with J2EE compliant Java with Open-Source applications:

EBP Portal

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Open Source Portal Architecture

  • No 3rd Party License Fees - all robust, well-tested Open Source applications: Apache, Tomcat/Jboss, Cocoon, Lucene, Open Symphony and Postgres.
  • Component Based - flexible offerings, allowing for extensible sites, easily integrated with other standards based components, either purchased or built in the futureBacked by arvato systems experience
  • Scalable - Install on one machine or multiple small machines to handle traffic as it grows
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Conclusion

arvato systems North America is dedicate to offering Portal solutions that exactly meet the needs of its customers. It can offer the widest range of technological expertise in Portal Platforms, at a scale and a budget that best matches the nature of the project and the client

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